Wednesday, November 2, 2011

30 News For Wednesday

Mozart helps prevent colon cancer? What colonoscopy study says
November 1, 2011

David W Freeman

Can classical music prevent colon cancer? Maybe not quite. But a fascinating new study suggests that doctors who listen to Mozart while performing colonoscopy are more likely to find precancerous colon polyps known as adenomas.


CBS News


NYC woman hospitalized by falling shopping cart


November 1, 2011


AP


NEW YORK - Police say two 12-year-olds are charged with felony assault and misdemeanor criminal possession of a weapon after they allegedly pushed a shopping cart off a fourth-floor walkway, hitting a woman in the head with the cart.


CBS News


HPV vaccine for boys? Yes



November 1, 2011


Unknown


A government panel now recommends that the vaccine against human papillomavirus should be routinely given to boys as well as girls. Our question is: What took so long?


LA Times



Conrad Murray's fate soon to be in jury's hands as testimony ends


November 1, 2011


Victoria Kim


Prosecutors and defense attorneys rested their case Tuesday morning in the involuntary manslaughter trial of Michael Jackson’s personal physician.



LA Times




Democratic Assemblywoman Cathleen Galgiani says she is gay


Novmber 1, 2011


Terry Van Oot


Democratic Assemblywoman Cathleen Galgiani has publicly come out as a lesbian.


Sac Bee


Occupy Sacramento lawyers file federal lawsuit against city for park crackdown


November 1, 2011


Ed Fletcher


Attorneys working on behalf of Occupy Sacramento protesters have filed a federal lawsuit contending the First Amendment free assembly rights of participants are being violated by the 11 p.m. curfew for Cesar Chavez Park.


Sac Bee


Stone-Washed Blue Jeans (Minus the Washed)


November 1, 2011

Leslie Caufman

From the cotton field in rural India to the local rag bin, a typical pair of blue jeans consumes 919 gallons of water during its life cycle, Levi Strauss & Company says, or enough to fill about 15 spa-size bathtubs. That includes the water that goes into irrigating the cotton crop, stitching the jeans together and washing them scores of times at home.


NY Times




4 Georgia Men Arrested in Terror Plot



November 1, 2011

Scott Shane

Four Georgia men who were part of a fringe militia group were arrested on Tuesday in what the Justice Department described as a plot to use guns, bombs and the toxin ricin to kill federal and state officials and spread terror.


NY Times




A Few Drinks a Week Raises Breast Cancer Risk


November 1, 2011

Anahad O'Conner

Some women who drink to their health may want to reconsider. A new study shows that women who routinely have even small amounts of alcohol, as few as three drinks a week, have an elevated risk of breast cancer.


NY Times

Whales putting on a show near Santa Cruz beaches


November 2, 2011

Erin Allday

A 200-pound man in a kayak has nothing on a 40-ton humpback whale hunting for breakfast, but that's not stopping dozens of sightseers from getting cozy with a pod that has strayed unusually close to shore near Santa Cruz.






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